by Chenyu Yi | May 11, 2018
This lesson demonstrates a way that makes math fun and easy. By using goldfishes and allowing them to choose different characters, children are easier to be engaged in the...
by Chenyu Yi | May 11, 2018
This lesson demonstrates a way that makes math fun and easy. By using goldfishes and allowing them to choose different characters, children are easier to be engaged in the...
by Chenyu Yi | May 11, 2018
This is an activity in which children could learn the concept of size through vision and...
by Chenyu Yi | May 11, 2018
This is an activity in which children could learn the concept of size through vision and...
by Jena Simms | Apr 12, 2018
Jena Simms | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, Kansas In every failure is a lesson. Einstein said failure is success in progress. That’s how you grow your brain! Read transcript Did you have trouble finding the shape that you wanted to make? How did that...
by Jena Simms | Feb 19, 2018
Jena Simms | Wichita Collegiate | Wichita, Kansas Students use hands on classroom centers and activities to complete daily work in math, though the activities can be used in any subject. Read transcript In my classroom, I have some independent math stations. Most of...
by Jena Simms | Jan 11, 2018
Jena Simms | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, Kansas Each student takes a domino and counts the dots. Students then compare the numbers. The student with the largest number takes both dominoes. Read transcript Today we’re going to be playing a game of...
by Jena Simms | Jan 11, 2018
Jena Simms | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, Kansas In this subtraction lesson, students use number cards and pennies to find the difference between two numbers. Read transcript Today I’m going to teach two students how to play the Difference Game. What...
by Colby Patton | Dec 14, 2017
Josh Sipes | Oxford High School | Oxford, Kansas Josh Sipes shares some tips to doing mental math for elementary students. Read Transcript Hi, I’m Josh Sipes. I teach high school and middle school math at Oxford Junior/Senior High School. I will be just doing a...
by Jena Simms | Nov 6, 2017
Jena Simms | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, Kansas Students and teacher can refer to the math vocabulary wall for math vocabulary reinforcement. This can help first graders learn, remember, and use math vocabulary correctly in and out of the classroom. Read...
by Jena Simms | Nov 3, 2017
Jena Simms | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita , Kansas Students get differentiated pages to cut and glue into a math journal. The journal can be added to and used as a resource throughout the year. Also, students can track their progress by using different colors...
by Teach for Life | Jun 6, 2017
Debra Dennill | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, Kansas The teacher uses rods of different sizes to teach measurement. The students arrange the rods from the shortest to the longest. Read Transcript Hello again. This is another way that I teach measurement to my...
by Teach for Life | Jun 6, 2017
Debra Dennill | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, Kansas The teacher uses ten cubes of different size to teach measurement. The students observe the teacher arranging the cubes by size from the biggest to the smallest. Read Transcript Today I’m going to teach...
by Teach for Life | May 18, 2017
A simple addition lesson, where students can count objects and add...
by Teach for Life | May 16, 2017
Sumita Ghosh | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, Kansas After the teacher discusses the number of sides and corners each shape has, the students do different activities involving circles, squares, and triangles. They can trace the shapes, cut them out of paper, and...
by Janet Houk | May 15, 2017
Janet Houk | Minneha Elementary | Wichita, Kansas Students use their own and each others’ hands to move from counting by ones to counting by fives. Read Transcript I would like to show you how I teach counting by five to the students in my classroom. To begin...
by Janet Houk | May 15, 2017
Janet Houk | Minneha Elementary | Wichita, Kansas Students practice counting by ones, then fives, then tens using their own and each others’ hands. Read Transcript Today I’m going to show you how I would teach counting by tens, to the students in my...
by Teach for Life | May 11, 2017
Noel Lucero | Kensler Elementary | Wichita, Kansas Each student has four basic shapes cut out of paper: rectangle, square, triangle, circle. The teacher picks one of the shapes and sings a song. Students have to recognize and pick up that shape and then join in the...
by Becky O'Hearn | May 1, 2017
Becky O’Hearn | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, Kansas The teacher and the students play a game with dice. The students learn more, less, equal by counting the dots on the die they roll and then comparing it to the teacher’s roll. The teacher has the...
by Teach for Life | Apr 20, 2017
Blake Burbach | Discovery Place Preschool | Wichita, Kansas The teacher explains “AB” and “ABC” patterns. She creates examples of the patterns using natural materials and then has the students make their own patterns. Read Transcript Patterns...
by Heidi Gallagher | Apr 11, 2017
Heidi Jo Gallagher | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, Kansas The teacher sings a song with the students to help them learn the days of the week using a calendar. She guides the students through the practice of learning numbers and the pronunciations of days of the...
by Janet Houk | Mar 10, 2017
Janet Houk | Minneha Elementary | Wichita, Kansas Here is one way to teach subtraction using simple story problems and small objects or “counters” like beans. The teacher tells some stories involving subtracting or “taking away” and uses beans...
by Teach for Life | Mar 8, 2017
Noel Lucero | Kensler Elementary | Wichita, Kansas This activity teaches students about sorting objects according to their relatives sizes: small, medium, and large. The teacher gives each student some objects of different sizes and the students sort them into the...
by Janet Houk | Mar 3, 2017
Janet Houk | Minneha Elementary | Wichita, Kansas In this activity, the teacher and students practice counting in sequence by using the ten fingers on their two hands. As the teacher puts up each finger the children count from 1 to 10. They can then partner with a...
by Cathy Gray | Mar 1, 2017
Cathy Gray | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, Kansas This activity teaches children that in subtracting, you start with the bigger number and take away the smaller number. The students practice rolling dice and putting the numbers in the correct order for a...
by Teach for Life | Mar 1, 2017
Jena Simms | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, Kansas In this lesson the teachers demonstrates how to count by twos using a chart of numbers up to one hundred. The students learn to count by 2s from any number. Read Transcript Okay, boys and girls. Today...
by Teach for Life | Feb 24, 2017
P.J. Auchterlonie | Caldwell Elementary | Wichita, Kansas In this activity, students use objects, or counters, to practice touch counting. They roll a die and then lay out that number of discs. They then touch each disc as they count the number aloud. Read Transcript...
by Teach for Life | Feb 24, 2017
P.J. Auchterlonie | Caldwell Elementary | Wichita, Kansas The teacher and students sing a song about five monkeys and count along with their fingers. They go from five monkeys to zero monkeys as they sing, making sure the number of fingers they are holding up matches...
by Teach for Life | Feb 23, 2017
Noel Lucero | Kensler Elementary | Wichita, Kansas This activity teaches students about sorting by showing them beads of different colors and asking how they might sort them. The students discuss and decide that they can be sorted by color. Then the students each sort...
by Teach for Life | Feb 23, 2017
Noel Lucero | Kensler Elementary | Wichita, Kansas In this activity, the teacher introduces four basic shapes: rectangle, square, triangle, and circle. She uses paper cutouts to show and describe each shape. Then she asks students to find the shape somewhere in the...
by Janet Houk | Feb 22, 2017
Janet Houk | Minneha Elementary | Wichita, Kansas The teacher uses beans to demonstrate counting. As each bean is placed on the table, it is counted aloud. This shows the students the one to one relationship between the written number and the number of objects....
by Janet Houk | Feb 22, 2017
Janet Houk | Minneha Elementary | Wichita, Kansas In this activity, the teacher and students match written numbers to the number of beans counted. This shows the students how numbers relate to real things. Each day, the class writes and discusses one number, after...
by Heidi Gallagher | Feb 22, 2017
Heidi Jo Gallagher | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, Kansas A measurement lesson in which the teacher shows the students different sized pipe cleaners and has the students compare the sizes. Other objects could be used such as sticks or leaves. Read Transcript...
by Teach for Life | Feb 22, 2017
Cindy Johnson | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, Kansas Here is one way a teacher can practice the concepts of less, more, and equal with students. Using a “weather graph board” the class tracks the number of days that are sunny, cloudy, etc., the...
by Teach for Life | Feb 22, 2017
Neva Thiessen | Early Childhood Educator | Wichita, Kansas A lesson that teaches students how to sort and graph using objects. The students can sort the objects by different characteristics and then graph them on paper. Read Transcript Hi. Today, I’m going to...
by Janet Houk | Feb 22, 2017
Janet Houk | Minneha Elementary | Wichita, Kansas An addition lesson where the teacher uses dot cards to teach the children how to “count on” from any given number. The teacher counts each dot on the cards individually with the student so they can see how...
by Teach for Life | Feb 22, 2017
Neva Thiessen | Early Childhood Educator | Wichita, Kansas The teacher and students count a group of objects together, touching each one as they count aloud. The teacher then shows the written number that matches to the number of objects. Read Transcript Hi. I’m...
by Janet Houk | Feb 22, 2017
Janet Houk | Minneha Elementary | Wichita, Kansas This activity uses separate cups labeled 0 to 3 to introduce the concept of zero. The teacher adds beans in each cup that match the number on the cup. The students are asked questions about the number of beans in each...
by Heidi Gallagher | Feb 22, 2017
Heidi Jo Gallagher | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, Kansas A graphing lesson where the students’ opinions are graphed on a whiteboard. The teacher has two cases filled with different materials and when the cases are shaken they make different sounds. She...
by Teach for Life | Feb 22, 2017
Noel Lucero | Kensler Elementary | Wichita, Kansas After the teacher has introduced basic shapes to her students, she has them build each shape out of construction paper or sticks. Read Transcript Hi, today I’m going to talk about one way that I teach shapes to...
by Janet Houk | Feb 21, 2017
Janet Houk | Minneha Elementary | Wichita, Kansas In this lesson, the teacher uses objects and relatable stories to help convey the key concepts of adding to early childhood students. She then asks the students to count the beans so they have a physical example of how...
by Teach for Life | Feb 21, 2017
Debra Dennill | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, Kansas The teacher and students use written numbers and glass beads to practice counting from 1-10. The teacher then introduces the concept of odd and even numbers and then reviews them with the class. Read...
by Teach for Life | Feb 14, 2017
Debra Dennill | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, Kansas In this lesson, the teacher uses written numbers and bead bars to demonstrate counting by tens. Students take turns placing the correct number of bars to represent 10, 20, 30 and so on until they reach 100....
by Teach for Life | Feb 14, 2017
Sumita Ghosh | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, Kansas In this activity, the teacher shows students how to solve written subtraction problems by counting tiles or other small objects. The students also get practice writing the problems, using sheets with the...
by Teach for Life | Feb 13, 2017
Cindy Johnson | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, Kansas This game helps students learn and practice recognizing written numbers. The teacher holds up a number and has a student find that number somewhere in the classroom. If a student has trouble reading the...
by Teach for Life | Feb 13, 2017
Sumita Ghosh | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, Kansas In this activity, the teacher shows students how to solve written addition problems by counting tiles or other small objects. The students also get practice writing the problems, using sheets with the addition...
by Amanda Leger | Feb 8, 2017
Amanda Leger | Wichita Collegiate School | Wichita, Kansas A song that can be used to teach students the months of the year. The teacher points at each month on a chart as they sing the song. Students clap on the current month. The teacher can also use the chart to...
by Educator Partner | Sep 23, 2016
This video describes children’s experience with shapes in their environment and their ability to recognize, name and describe a shape’s attributes. This video is part of a series describing children’s early mathematical development and showing how professionals...
by Educator Partner | Sep 16, 2016
This video describes children’s ability to collect, observe and compare data. Working with data offers children interesting opportunities to gather information to find an answer to a question. This video is part of a series describing children’s early...
by Educator Partner | Sep 8, 2016
This video describes children’s ability to notice the various attributes of objects and to describe their sizes. Adults can introduce measurement of those objects using both standard and nonstandard units. This video is part of a series describing children’s...
by Educator Partner | Aug 19, 2016
Dr. Sudha Swaminathan describes the importance of providing children ample opportunities to manipulate tangible objects while developing counting skills. This foundational understanding eventually leads to their ability to engage in abstract counting. This video is...
by Educator Partner | Jul 21, 2016
This video describes children’s ability to compare two groups and notice if one has more or less. It also provides examples of how early childhood professionals can both explicitly teach this skill and support its development through daily routines and play. This...
by Educator Partner | Jun 16, 2016
This video describes children’s recognition of total quantity (cardinality). It also provides examples of how early childhood professionals can both explicitly teach this skill and support its development through daily routines and play. This video is part of a series...
by Educator Partner | May 27, 2016
This video describes children’s understanding of quantity and their development of one-to-one correspondence. It also provides examples of how early childhood professionals can both explicitly teach this skill and support its development through daily routines and...
by Educator Partner | May 16, 2016
This video describes children’s understanding of quantity and their development of counting skills from rote to purposeful. It also provides examples of how early childhood professionals can both explicitly teach this skill and support its development through daily...
by Educator Partner | Feb 1, 2016
This video shares ideas for activities with a balancing scales. Students learn about comparing weights and...
by Educator Partner | Jun 10, 2015
Just take some straws and a ruler and you have the materials for some great learning activities about...
